Too late to ban RedNote, the horse has bolted

 The USA is trying to cover up its decades of lies by banning Rednote. The truth is already out, and USA citizens have seen the truth, and unless they are morons or the living dead, they will not continue to believe in the lies of the USA Government and MSM. The damage is already done, and it is a self-inflicted wound that is the result of banning Tik Tok.

China is not going to retaliate too harshly against Trump's tariffs, making just a token calculated retaliatory move that most will think is a sign of weakness and fear. China is playing a different game, knowing that Trump's tariffs against Chinese products is going to backfire badly against USA citizens. China is just letting the USA consumers suffer the damage and respond over Trump's tariffs against China. China just has to cut exports to USA over those tariffs and selling more to BRICS countries and the Global South. Little is going to change for Chinese manufacturers making their products at the same cost and selling at the same price outside the USA.

Having said that, Mexico and Canada do not have the luxury of having a big alternative market like China and the competitiveness of Chinese products. Trump's tariffs will decimate Canada and Mexico's economy, but we now know it could be just play-acting by Trump trying to pull back his action by claiming Mexico and Canada are doing something over their border issues regarding migrants. We shall see how this will play out.

Anonymous

Trump wants to continue his bromance with Kim, hoping that Kim will denuclearise

 Having met Kim Jong Un twice without achieving anything, Trump is truly delusional. If he thinks he can force Kim Jong Un on to his knees this time around by using retaliation threats, he is mistaken. Threat of more sanctions and tariffs would not work, with more than 60 years of sanctioning just wasted effort. A military threat is still questionable, and the world would not want to suffer a nuclear catastrophe, not South Korea or Japan especially.

North Korea is no Panama, Saudi Arabia, Denmark, Greenland, Mexico or Canada. It is a nuclear state; small it may be. but with Russia behind its back who wants to take a bet? No one knows what kind of alliance is already forged between Putin and Kim. North Korea, anyway, is no pushover for delusional Trump.

Anonymous

USA old trick of talking peace in one theatre of war just to start a new war in another place.

 

USA old trick of talking peace in one theatre of war just to start a new war in another place.



It's the American habitual practice of negotiating peace to stop a war it cannot win but soon after it will start another war in another place thinking it will win .

The United States started the Korean War 1950 - 1953. It couldn't win the war after over three years of fierce fighting. So it negotiated a truce to stop the fighting. But soon after in 1955 it embroiled itself in a war against Vietnam. US lost the Vietnamese war after over ten years of fighting. So it negotiated a peace treaty with Vietnam. In 2001 US bombed and invaded Afghanistan . It lost the war to the Taliban after twenty years of fighting. In 2021 US withdrew from Afghanistan only to find itself planning a proxy war in Ukraine against Russia. In fact US had planned for the proxy war in Ukraine against Russia since 2004 and in 2014 US succeeded in overthrowing the democratically elected government of Ukraine which was pro Russia. US succeeded in provoking the Ukraine War in 2022 which is still ongoing now. However, as US is losing the proxy war in Ukraine it is trying to negotiate with Russia to stop the war.

Russia must be wary of United States sinister tricks. Trump hopes to have a trade off with Putin in stopping the Ukraine war in order to get Russia's approval for US annexation of Greenland, Canada, Mexico and Panama. Putin must not fall into Trump's diabolical trap. Anyway the Russians and the Chinese know too well the Anglo-Saxon United States ultimate objective is to destroy Russia and China to clear the stumbling block to US geopolitical agenda of subjecting the whole world under its rigid hegemony.

Nevertheless US is a warmongering state and its economy depends on perennial wars to keep its war industries churning and its economy running and surviving. It can be sure the moment the Ukraine war stops US will be starting wars somewhere in some other places maybe in Latin America, in Middle East, East Asia or South China Sea region. It is most likely US will provoke a war against China in Taiwan or in the South China Sea. In either case US cannot hope to win. But US will become so desperate that it may provoke a nuclear confrontation against Russia and China. That's hope it may not come to that or else it will be the end of mankind.

Southernglory1.

Friday, 14th February, 2025

Trump Modi bromance - What a touching moment

 

Such a loving couple in a tender moment. I miss you. I too. Beautiful is the word. Photo credit CNA.

What was Trump thinking? What was Modi thinking?

Trump cancels USAID and cuts funds to all Channel News America agencies

Elon Musk has derided pro-Western Russian and Ukrainian media outlets over their degree of perceived “independence,” as the publications now find themselves under severe financial strain following US President Donald Trump’s clampdown on the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

Shortly after his inauguration, Trump suspended most of US foreign aid pending a three-month review, which primarily affected USAID, Washington’s agency for funding political projects abroad. Trump has called for the agency to be shut down altogether, citing rampant corruption and overall inefficiency.

On Sunday, Elon Musk, the head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and also a fierce critic of USAID, mocked a Washington Post article entitled “Independent media in Russia, Ukraine lose their funding with USAID freeze.”

“‘Independent media’ lmao,” he wrote on X, employing the acronym meaning “laughing my a** off.” RT

The USAID is Trump's trump card to bring down the Republican party and the Deep State. Musk must take full credit for exposing this totally corrupt organisation and for expelling almost all its staff in one blow. Many big names, including Pelosi, Obama, Clintons etc were named as main actors in dipping into the funds of USAID for their personal use and pleasure.

What is more damaging is that USAID is the main agency that was distributing funds to all the Channel News America agencies, including BBC, to propagate their fabricated news and misinformation and controlling their editorial policies. BBC is the first to spill the beans once the fund is cut and has started to publish more objective news instead of American lies. More Channel News America that had been under the control of the Americans, receiving fundings from USAID would now be free to report more independently and objectively, as the funding is now stopped.

Caveat, some silly Channel News America could go on to report or publish American propaganda and hate news even without receiving a cent from USAID, maybe hoping that more Americans could still come their way, or still under the coercion of America ie lapdogs and cronies. But many would now revert to their past practices, at least to try to publish more objective news, not American lies.

In the meantime, see how Trump and Musk drag out the corrupt Pelosi, Obama and the Clintons across the streets for all to see.